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Saadia Gaon

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Saadia Gaon · 882–942

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“He was the first thinker in nine hundred years to build Judaism a philosophy — because Baghdad's marketplace of arguments made it impossible not to.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 74

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“Reason and revelation are two roads to the same truth — and a tradition worth keeping is one that can prove, in open argument, why it deserves to be trusted.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 74

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